HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 40 points –
HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
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No more open source.

Vendors who provide competitive services built on our community products will no longer be able to incorporate future releases, bug fixes, or security patches contributed to our products.

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Did you read the post from them? You are not affected.

Not affected today, many businesses were started from home. We already know it's not possible any more to build a business using hashicorp products as they could pivot at any moment and then you'd be "competing" and in breach of license.

Yes but is that affecting you businesswise, for example using terraform for proviosioning infrastructure for a customer? As far as I understand this move it affects companies like gruntwork who makes a business on top of terraform with terragrunt. Dont get me wrong, I do dislike this change also but saying „it is not open source anymore“ is just wrong. It is still open source but its usage changed for companies making a dollar here or there with technologies they dont develop.

It is still open source but its usage changed for companies making a dollar here or there with technologies they dont develop

That's not open source.

It is. You mix free software and open source, their often but not always the same.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

https://opensource.org/osd/

  1. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

https://opensource.org/licenses/

I see no discrimination here lol. Look up licenses and stop dreaming.

Stop shilling proprietary licenses in this community.

  1. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Also go look up the word discrimination.

Sure, but it’s a question of principle. I try to use and support FLOSS software if possible.

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